Renovating the Heart
How Dallas Willard’s Classic on Human Transformation Helps Us Today
Here are some resources mentioned in Renovating the Heart: How Dallas Willard’s Classic on Human Transformation Helps Us Today webcast conversation between Jane Willard, Gary Moon, Natasha Sistrunk Robinson, and Carolyn Arends.
SPECIAL NOTES AND OPPORTUNITIES
We’ve just begun reading Renovation of the Heart in the Renovaré Book Club. Friday, April 8th, is the last day to join.
Renovaré’s Lent Resource Page
WEBINAR RESOURCES
Countdown Song
Willing from the album Love Was Here First by Carolyn Arends
Resources Recommended by Jane Willard
- Books by Dallas Willard
- Other Resources
Resources recommended by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
- Books by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Mentor for Life: Finding Purpose through Intentional Discipleship
A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World
Journey to Freedom: Discovering the God of Deliverance, An Exodus Bible Study
Voices of Lament: Reflections on Brokenness and Hope in a World Longing for Justice (A book of essays, poems, and liturgies by Women of Color on Psalm 37)
- Other Resources
Resources recommended by Gary Moon
- Books by Gary W. Moon
- Other Resources
The LifeSprings Renovation of the Heart video series and study guide
- Dallas’s Four Concerns:
(1) The invisible is real (Divine Conspiracy)
(2) We can interact with/draw knowledge from that reality (Hearing God/Spirit of the Disciplines)
(3) We are designed to interact with that reality (RotH)
(4) If we do it, it will produce real and measurable changes. (Knowing Christ Today)
Resources recommended by Carolyn Arends
Other Resources Mentioned in the Webinar and Chat:
- Marjorie Thompson Quote:
“A Spiritual Director is one who “listens” the other into clarity. A Spiritual Director “listens to God behind the listening.”
- Robert Mulholland Quote
“Spiritual transformation is the Spirit-empowered process we engage in by which our hearts are transformed into Christ’s image, for the joy of our Creator, the benefit of others, and our own abundant life.”
Nouwen: Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith
Johnson: Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation (Redefining Life)
Johnson: Prayer and Listening
Benner: Surrender to Love: Discovering the Heart of Christian Spirituality (The Spiritual Journey)
Jane Willard
For over 25 years Jane, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), worked with adults who had experienced childhood trauma, utilizing what she termed imagery prayer. She has presented several papers on the topic at conferences for Christian therapists. Currently Jane is a certified spiritual director. She has led groups through the 30-week Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and, with joy and gratitude, meets with directees via Skype and in her home in Chatsworth, CA where she and Dallas lived for most of their 57 years of marriage. Jane, her daughter Becky Heatley, and the family work with publishers and organizations to continue Dallas’s message of “living in the Kingdom now.”
Gary Moon
Gary W. Moon, M.Div. Ph.D. served as the founding Executive Director of the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture and the Dallas Willard Center for Christian Spiritual Formation at Westmont College and continues to direct their resource development initiatives through serving as the director of Conversatio Divina: A Center for Spiritual Formation.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends oversees the Renovaré Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation as well as several other Renovaré initiatives, including the Book Club. She is also a recording artist, speaker, author, and college instructor. She lives near Vancouver, BC, with her husband Mark and their two children.
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson (MA, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) is a writer, international speaker, leadership consultant, mentoring coach, and the visionary founder of the nonprofit, Leadership LINKS, Inc. She is author of Mentor for Life: Finding Purpose through Intentional Discipleship and the Hope for Us: Knowing God through the Nicene Creed Bible study. A graduate of the US Naval Academy and a former Marine Corps officer, Natasha has nearly twenty years of leadership and mentoring experience in the military, government, church, seminary, and nonprofit sectors. In addition, she is a columnist at Outreach Magazine, regular contributor at Missio Alliance, and a member of the INK Creative Collective.
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